Confidential to Els

[slag]

You will appreciate this, considering some of the shit we've riffed on in the past:

There quite a few Viking fans at the Stink yesterday (I think the Wentz factor brought more out than usual), and two were sitting near us.

My brother and I were doing shit like:

"Oh yah ... that Bradford ... he's a funny lookin' fella" ... "Funny how?" ... "you know, just in a general kinda way"

"What'd ya think of that play ... would it kill you to say something? ... No ... that's it? that a fountain of information ... that's a fuckin' geyser"

"Wentz ... he's a hell of a player ... you're gonna want a guy ... he's like that Trucoat ... you're gonna need that Trucoat"

They actually got it and were laughing with us (one of them was from a town not far from Brainerd)

[Ellsworth]

BRAINARD?!
Yahhh we got that big statue up there. Babe the blue ox.
BABE the blue ox.

Hon?
Yaaa?
Prowler needs a jump!


Excellent man. God I would have had a goddamned FIELD DAY doing that.

[RSE]

I don't know if it was the same for you, but as an adolescent in the 70's I knew a lot of bandwagon Vikings cockroach fans.

[slag]

Didn't run into any myself back in the day.

I actually thought they were coming out of the woodwork on Sunday because of the undefeated start, but then figured it was also attributed to Wentz.

[Loki]

In the paper Friday

They mentioned that a lot of ND folks and even CW's friends were Viking fans